my FINISHED sampler

This quilt was one of my oldest UFOs.  I purchased the fabrics in the summer of 2009.  Using Around the Block by Judy Hopkins my cousin, Erin and I each picked half the blocks.(I picked alot of pain in the rear blocks.  Sorry Erin.)  We meant to do one block a week... taking us 42 weeks then eh?  psssht.  Its 2012!  I think for awhile there I was on track.  It didn't last.  After a year we decided to make a final push to get the blocks pieced atleast!  I did five one day, two the next, seven the day after that, zero the next day, and I finished up the week getting 12 done the last day!  Finally I had all of my blocks done.  Yep.  That was June of 2010! Two years ago!

The blocks were frustrating.  That is why it took so long to make it into a top and then another year for me to finally baste and quilt it.  I learned alot while making this quilt.  I had never made or sewn triangles before this sampler. I had never had to work through the frustration before.  I thought about throwing it away several times.  I said some not so nice things about Ms. Hopkins at one point.  If my cousin wasn't having issues also I for sure would have quit. I thought myself a quilt dunce until one day during the block making my cousin told me 'if this was my first quilt project I would have quit quilting'  

Now that its finished I love it.  

Now that its DONE I have dropped the 'from hell' part of its name.  

Now its just the sampler.

done